Session Timeout Redirect in a php app

[johnhaag90]

So, I've written some code that kills the session on timeout, but it will not redirect to the login screen unless I try to navigate to another page in the app. Any suggestions?

        if(isset($_SESSION['start']) ) {
        $session_life = time() - $_SESSION['start'];
        if($session_life > $inactive) {
        $_SESSION = array();
        $session_destroy();
        header('Location:login.php');
        $timedout = '1';
 
    }
}

[Dormilich]

1) why not leave session timeout to PHP? it has a GC for timed-out sessions.

2) redirects not working are 99% due to having output before it. enable error reporting and error display to show error messages concerning that problem.